Depending on who’s listening, the current discussion involving the growing role of Artificial Intelligence in business inspires a range of dramatically divergent…
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The Analytics of Language, Behavior, and Personality
Computational linguists and computer scientists, among them University of Texas professor Jason Baldridge, have been working for over fifty years toward algorithmic understanding of…
Read MoreWhy you can’t program intelligent robots, but you can train them
If it feels like we’re in the midst of robot renaissance right now, perhaps it’s because we are. There is a new…
Read MoreWatson-powered toy blows past Kickstarter goal in a day
First it was Jeopardy!, then it was cancer, e-commerce and cooking. Now, IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence system is powering a line of…
Read MoreHere’s more evidence that sports is a goldmine for machine learning
If you really like sports and you’re really skilled at data analysis or machine learning, you might want to make that your…
Read MoreLuminoso brings its text analysis smarts to streaming data
Luminoso, a sentiment analysis startup with DNA from MIT’s Media Lab, says its new product can take consumer feedback from Twitter, Facebook, Google+…
Read MoreInboxVudu uses NLP to help you focus on the emails that matter
A text-analysis startup called Parakweet (whose initial product focused on book recommendations) has launched a new application, called InboxVudu, that’s designed to…
Read MoreNow IBM is teaching Watson Japanese
IBM has struck a deal SoftBank Telecom Corporation to bring the IBM Watson artificial intelligence (or, as IBM calls it, cognitive computing)…
Read MoreMicrosoft throws down the gauntlet in business intelligence
[company]Microsoft[/company] is not content to let Excel define the company’s reputation among the world’s data analysts. That’s the message the company sent…
Read MoreWhy data science matters and how technology makes it possible
When Hilary Mason talks about data, it’s a good idea to listen. She was chief data scientist at Bit.ly, data scientist in…
Read MoreScientists say tweets predict heart disease and community health
University of Pennsylvania researchers have found that the words people use on Twitter can help predict the rate of heart disease deaths in…
Read MoreNew from Watson: Financial advice and a hardcover cookbook
IBM has recruited a couple of new partners in its quest to mainstream its Watson cognitive computing system: financial investment specialist Vantage…
Read MoreFacebook acquires speech-recognition IoT startup Wit.AI
Facebook has acquired Wit.AI, a San Francisco-based startup building a speech-recognition platform for the internet of things. The company launched early in…
Read MoreAI startup Expect Labs raises $13M as voice search API takes off
There’s more to speech recognition apps than Siri, Cortana or Google voice search, and a San Francisco startup called Expect Labs aims…
Read MoreIBM’s Watson is now studying PTSD in veterans
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is working with IBM to analyze hundreds of thousands of VA hospital medical records using the Watson…
Read MoreWhat we read about deep learning is just the tip of the iceberg
The artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning is white hot right now, as we have noted numerous times before. It’s powering…
Read MoreWith $8M and star team, MetaMind does deep learning for enterprise
A Palo Alto startup called MetaMind launched on Friday promising to help enterprises use deep learning to analyze their images, text and…
Read MoreWhy Nuance is pushing for a new type of Turing test
Nuance Communications is sponsoring a contest called the Winograd Schema challenge that aims to replace the usual conversation-based attempts to pass the Turing test. According to its backers, the Winograd challenge places more emphasis on intelligence and less on trickery.…
Read MoreWant to make money in machine learning? Find your users first
Targeted machine learning applications continue to raise money and big-time users, possibly at the expense of general-purpose platforms targeting potentially much broader use cases.…
Read MoreGoogle, Stanford build hybrid neural networks that can explain photos
Researchers at both Stanford University and Google have fused state-of-the-art neural network techniques for vision and language in order to create hybrid systems that can analyze images and produce natural-language explanations of what's happening in them.…
Read MoreIBM Watson invests in personal health company
IBM’s Watson group has invested an undisclosed amount of money in Pathway Genomics to help the company deliver an app that gives…
Read MoreAmazon’s Echo device already exists. It’s called Ubi
Amazon just showed off a new connected device that combines the skills of Siri with a speaker. It's a cool idea and looking at other products like it can tell us what Amazon needs to get right.…
Read MoreIBM highlights a growing Watson ecosystem and API collection
IBM has announced a long list of new Watson customers and startup partners, ranging from standby industries such as health care to new ones such as cybersecurity and nonprofits. Perhaps more importantly, the company also gave developers a handful of new Watson-powered APIs.…
Read MoreInsteon integrates with Microsoft Cortana for voice control in the home
"Insteon, I'm home!" With those words, an Insteon home automation system and a Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1 handset, you could unlock your doors and turn on your lights.…
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